I NEED HELP finding NTs on other forums and testing them

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[The title is referring to the last post of mine, as of 7:36 A.M. April 13, where I'm trying to recruit neurotypical people on other forums to take the asperger tests in order to make the asperger prediction calculator accurate. I need help finding the best forums to advertise and I need help with the "recruitment letter".]

Hello, I'm a person who really likes numbers and statistics. I was wanting to correlate all the possible scores that people earn on various tests across the internet, but there's a problem: It's scattered all across the forums! Wouldn't that be cool if there was a list of test names and their respective scores in someone's profile, so that the data could be easily gleaned?

I know it's not 'obviously needed' by any chance, but I thought I'd voice a wannabe data researcher's dream. If any significant correlations are found, then a formula could be constructed that could predict someone's probability of having aspergers or some other form of autism just by taking into account their scores. To be most accurate, this wondrous formula would control for 'obvious variables', like gender and age (Though age isn't commonly divulged.) and the obvious imbalance in the "number of autistics / number of neurotypicals" ratio and other self-selection affects (Maybe...I still have to think that through).

(I'll probably just write a program to parse the various 'threads' that contain scores on various tests if I really want to obtain that data. Don't know if I'll do that, though, given the amount of effort.)

you could make a "post your test scores!" thread... and have links to various quizzes at the beginning, too.

So, now before starting the "Post your scores!" thread, I'd like to gather the "highly important" quizzes so that the earliest posters don't miss out on the "highly important" quizzes. So, what does everyone think would or could be a good test?

Here's my list so far:

Facial recognition - http://glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/Faces/EyesTest.aspx

Raven's progressive matrices / Nonverbal IQ test - http://iqtest.dk/main.swf (If anyone knows of a more accurate nonverbal IQ test, please share. Since this one is normed on the online test takers, that lowers the score compared to a professional nonverbal IQ test as online test takers are smarter than average.)

Anyone know any good verbal IQ tests? Vocabulary tests work since there's a high correlation between vocabulary and verbal IQ.

AQ test - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html

The "Aspie"/"Neurotypical" test - <I'll find the link later>

Facial memory test - http://www.faceblind.org/facetests/fgcf ... _intro.php

Any more are welcome!

I think that's a pretty good list so far, though you may get jumped on for including any sort of test with "IQ" in the name.
If I had more time, I'd definitely want to do something similar. Maybe I could help out a bit here and there if you would like.

I support this idea.

Thanks for the Ravens test - not seen that one before.

I have kept all my results for the other tests and would happily post them up for you - great idea

what about the aspie quiz on rdos.net?

The aspie quiz has been added.

Anyway, from the official test thread, there's a lot of data from those who have or likely have aspergers and not a lot of "neurotypicals". I've created a "test thread post" for targeting other forums that likely have a lot of neurotypical individuals, but now I need to find those other forums! Does anyone have any ideas?

So far I've targeted the "Social Anxiety" forums at http://www.socialanxietysupport.com/forum/f26/, but the post has to be approved by a moderator. Hmmmphh.. Next time, I'll register, make 10 posts and then wait a couple of days, and THEN post.

Anyway know any other good ones? Better ones would probably be those where neurotypicals think there's something "mentally wrong" with them, such as anxiety, shyness, mental illnesses or something along those lines so they will probably be more curious if they have aspergers, though any popular forums filled with neurotypicals would probably work, too.

Okay, I could use some help. I'm trying to create the prediction calculator at http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt157848.html, but I'm running into a problem - there isn't a lot of nuerotypical people taking the tests, which makes calibrating it rather difficult.

Does anyone know of any place to put a message advertising that post on the forums? I've tried Love and Relationships because NTs are really into that; I've also tried "The Haven" because I'd imagine there's a lot of depressed individuals who have SAD and maybe not aspergers who come to wrong planet because they feel they are on the "wrong planet" for other reasons; I've also tried "Parents" because I suspect that many of the parents and/or siblings who go there aren't autistic themselves.

Also, I'm looking at recruiting people to take the tests on other forums on the web. The ideal "average forum person" would be unemployed, has a lot of spare time, lonely and ... other things.



So far, I've targeted the "Social Anxiety Forum" with the following letter (But it has to be approved by a moderator and I don't think it will be.):

I am NT and would be happy to take the tests. Just let me know which ones to take and I will take them.